Flash Eurobarometer 238 (Europeans’ Attitudes Towards Animal Cloning)

Attitudes towards animal cloning.<br>Topics: awareness of the term ´animal cloning´; knowledge test on animal cloning: cloned animals are an identical copy of the source animals, animal cloning involves genetic modification; attitude towards the following statements on animal cloning: is morally wrong, might lead to human cloning, causes unnecessary pain, long term effects on nature are unknown, decreases genetic diversity within livestock populations; justification of animal cloning with regard to selected purposes: improve disease robustness, preserve rare animal breeds, food production; attitude towards the following statements on cloning animals for food production purposes: necessary to apply for the benefit of European food industry, unknown long-term health and safety effects, morally not acceptable, lowers cost for consumers, ethically unacceptable; most important benefits to justify animal cloning for food production; most trustworthy sources of information on the use of cloned animals for human consumption; likeliness to buy food products from cloned animals if rated safe; likeliness to buy food products from animals where one parent was a clone; importance of labelling food products from offspring of cloned animals; assessment of benefit from cloning for food production for: consumers, farmers, food industry.

Demography: sex; age; age at end of education; occupation; professional position; type of community.

Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; interviewer ID; language of the interview; date of interview; time of the beginning of the interview; duration of the interview; type of phone line; region; weighting factor.